A display element that realizes a high reflectance in white display, a high display speed and a suppressed display unevenness. Accordingly, there is provided a display element having electrodes opposite to each other and, interposed therebetween, an electrolyte layer containing silver or a compound containing silver in its chemical structure and a porous white scattering layer, the opposite electrodes driven so as to induce silver dissolution and precipitation, characterized in that the porous white scattering layer consists of at least two sublayers wherein when the porous white scattering sublayer adjacent to electrode is referred to as the first sublayer while the porous white scattering sublayer positioned on a side remoter than the first sublayer as viewed from the electrode is referred to as the second sublayer, the average particle diameter of main-component particles constituting the first sublayer is greater than that of main-component particles constituting the second sublayer.